From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change for link speed Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 08:21:14 +0100 Message-ID: <1450164074-16090-1-git-send-email-thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> Cc: Matej Vido To: dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f54.google.com (mail-wm0-f54.google.com [74.125.82.54]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 991FB11F5 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 2015 08:23:32 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-wm0-f54.google.com with SMTP id p66so77326974wmp.0 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:23:32 -0800 (PST) List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" A rework was prepared by Marc Sune: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-October/026037.html The goal is to retrieve the supported link speed of a device and to allow 100G devices while having a consistent API. Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index a4abb08..f8a41dd 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ Deprecation Notices ibadcrc, ibadlen, imcasts, fdirmatch, fdirmiss, tx_pause_xon, rx_pause_xon, tx_pause_xoff, rx_pause_xoff +* The ethdev structures rte_eth_link, rte_eth_dev_info and rte_eth_conf + must be updated to support 100G link and to have a cleaner link speed API. + * ABI changes is planned for the reta field in struct rte_eth_rss_reta_entry64 which handles at most 256 entries (8 bits) while newer NICs support larger tables (512 entries). -- 2.5.2